Mulhall

Lucille Mulhall was born in St. Louis on October 21, 1885, and came to Oklahoma Territory in 1889. She was performing in her father's Wild West show by 1899, appeared at President William McKinley's inauguration in 1901, and in 1903 in Texas set a world steer-roping record by roping a steer in 30 seconds. She retired to the family ranch near here around 1922 and died on December 21, 1940, in a car accident less than a mile from it. She entered the Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1975 and the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1977.

What the plaque says

Mulhall, Oklahoma Territory First post office est'd May 18, 1889 as Alfred, O.T. Town name was changed June 6, 1890 to honor Zack Mulhall, rancher and Wild West Show Promoter. His daughter, Lucille Mulhall, was famous as "World's First Cowgirl."

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Oklahoma Territorial Museum and Carnegie Library — 13 mi
  The 1902 Carnegie Library in Guthrie where Oklahoma's statehood was proclaimed in 1907, saved from demolition in 1972 by adding a museum of the seventeen territorial years beside it.
• Cherokee Strip Museum and Rose Hill School — 16 mi
  Perry's museum of the Cherokee Outlet, in a town that was a land office on bare prairie the morning of September 16, 1893 and held some 25,000 people that night.

More markers nearby

• Run of '89 North Boundary — 6.8 mi
• Lovell — 13 mi
• Catherine Ann (Kate) Barnard — 13 mi
• Birthplace of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in Oklahoma — 13 mi